Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Inspired by another enigmatic tweet by the excellent @PredictiveBeat I have been perusing my Sgt. Pepper LP cover with fresh eyes, renewed by the potential for synchronicities and curiosities thrown-up by photo overlays.

Whilst it certainly does appear that they are trying to tell us where "the doors" are, I also noticed another strange curio. Or two. Or three.

Pepper/Cut-out overlay

Firstly, the Sgt. Pepper Beatles are contained nicely within the frame of Sgt. Pepper/Babington. Secondly, the old, mop-top, wax Beatles are encompassed by the cut-out 'fake' moustache.But, returning to the fact that the Sergeant stripes appear to point to the divine Miss Dors, they also seem to serve to obscure her and highlight the fact that she is flanked by two of the Shirley Temples.Accordingly, I googled Sergeant Temple and discovered that Shirley Temple married a guy called John Agar. Agar, it appears, was a sergeant in the United States Army Air Corps.

Sgt. Temple

Agar, thanks to his marriage to Shirley Temple, managed to embark upon an acting career, during which he appeared in a film called Along the Great Divide where he played a character called Billy Shear, who dies, unsuprisingly. Coincidence? Probably, but god knows you couldn't make this shit up. However, is it a coincidence that if you overlay the cut-out over the lyrics from the Pepper back-cover it points to the line, from A Day in the Life, naturally; that states "I saw a film today, oh boy. The English army had just won the war".

Monday, 18 September 2017

It is a truism that when you start looking for something you
tend to find it; however, the more one looks at the Sgt. Pepper cover the more
one does indeed find. Thankfully, it is not just me that finds a series of
strange coincidences, happenstances, synchronicities and codes embedded within
the most iconic record sleeve of all time.

Despite not having produced a video in many years my old YouTube channel suddenly
started receiving a number of interesting, and cryptic, comments pertaining to
Pepper, and it is these comments that were the inspiration for this, and
hopefully future, articles.

It is always wonderful when somebody takes the time to read
and comment on one’s work, even more life-affirming though when they pick up
the threads and start looking for their own answers to the questions posed.
Fresh eyes always see things differently and identify new areas for
investigation and these comments – literally a deluge in this case – pose a
whole new set of questions. Not least of these being; when exactly did the
planning for Pepper begin and is it an example of predictive programming?

Here is one of the original comments: AH! LOOK AT ALL THE "LONELY" PEOPLE! (AH = 1+8 = 9) Was
"Eleanor Rigby", from August 1966, (ten months BEFORE "Sgt
Pepper") setting us up for a record and cover that had already been
prepared? Was Paul giving us an instruction to look at the LONELY (hearts club)
people a year before we first saw them gathered together? An anagram of
"Ah, look at all the lonely people" is: ALLEN POE, LEO, HALL: LOOK AT
THE "YP". Poe, Leo Gorcey (later removed) and, next to him, Huntz
Hall all appear on the back row of the Sgt Pepper crowd, aligned. If you draw a
line on the Pepper sleeve drum skin that takes you from the "Y" to
the "P" (the one that sits directly below the dead centre of the
cover, which has been cited before by Redwel), and then beyond, it takes you
to.... KARL MARX / HG WELLS Again! When Poe, Hall, the "Y" and the
"P" are connected, it creates a perfect, inverted right-angle
triangle. That means that there are possiblyTHREE markers on Sgt Pepper alone
that take us to Marx/Wells point, as well as those later on "Maxwells
Silver Hammer". Behind the scenes, is it possible that the team that
assembled and steered The Beatles were working at least a year ahead of
schedule?﻿

Which is, I am sure you will agree, a staggering possibility,
but is it one that can be validated in any meaningful way?

Some time ago I wrote about the fact that if you overlay a
compass over the Sgt. Pepper cover, then, at exactly 33°, you will find both Karl Marx
and H.G. Wells, who were both 33° Freemasons. Now, via Karl Townam’s
anagram of ‘Ah, look at all the lonely people’ we can discover another encoded
reference to Marx Wells.

33° Masons at exactly 33°

If you extend this compass line slightly, down through the
Pepper drum-skin, through the ‘P’ and ‘Y’ of Lonely Hearts we can create an
axis for Karl’s right-sided triangle that is completed through the anagrammatic
list of cast members – Allen Poe, Leo (Gorcey) and (Huntz) Hall.

So, by looking at the all the lonely people, as instructed
by Eleanor Rigby (who lived in a dream a la ‘Yesterday’, which was formed in a
dream), we can find a link to the very people mentioned, albeit
anagrammatically, in the line ‘Ah! Look at all the lonely people’.

Also, if we look again at the extended 33° line we see that it goes
through both ALBERT Stubbins and Huntz HALL – ‘Now They Know How Many holes it
takes to fill the ALBERT HALL’. A line, of course, from ‘A Day in the Life’.

Karl further suggests that there may be a further link with
Marx Wells via the, almost, punning title of ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ (Marx /
Wells Silver Hammer) from the Abbey Road LP. The lyrics to this song mention PC
31; Character 31 from the list of the Pepperati is, of course, Karl Marx. So,
is PC 31 Karl Marx?

‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ is a tale about a chap called
Maxwell Edison who has a penchant for killing people by hitting them on the
head with a silver hammer. Interestingly, a short H G Wells story called The
Reconciliation is a tale about a chap called Temple who kills an old friend
by hitting him on the head with a boxing glove filled with a whale bone.

Now, if we draw a line from Wells down to the Shirley TEMPLE
doll, we find it goes through a bloodied glove!

Our friend Karl suggests one more clue that could tie Sgt.
Pepper and Abbey Road together. He suggests that an anagram of ‘Polythene Pam’ is
‘Open the Map YL’. So, if you draw a line from the "Y" and either of
the "L’s" on the centre of the drum skin it follows the same 33° line
again, to Marx/Wells.

Finally, if one should overlay the Abbey Road cover over its Sgt. Pepper counterpart we find the Abbey Road Beatles walking right over the Beatles grave from Sgt. Pepper.

Pepper Road - Lonely He Die

I have long contended that the Sgt. Pepper cover is a
treasure map, but is it really? Well, we shall return to the map thing
henceforth, but, in the meantime, Karl tells me he will be publishing his own
blog entitled It's Getting Very Near the End shortly, that will reveal more of
his exciting discoveries and he is tweeting prolifically @PredictiveBeat

Monday, 5 June 2017

Whilst watching a fascinating Beatles documentary this Saturday, (Sgt. Pepper's Musical Revolution: BBC2, 03/06/17) I was treated to perhaps the clearest image yet of our old friend from the RAOB, or Legionnaire from the order of the Buffaloes to give him his correct Sgt. Pepper title.

1197 - the number of the beast?

The image appears to be from a behind-the-scenes look at the Sgt. Pepper photo shoot - but is not an image I have seen before.

Traditionally we are used to seeing this mysterious dude popping up from behind the (Shirley) Temple (Diana) Do(o)rs.

His appearance is somewhat of a mystery and may be a tribute to John Lennon's Uncle Charlie who was apparently a member.However, the mystery man may also be displaying a masonic apron and the latest picture reveals that his fez displays the number 1197. I am not aware of an RAOB Lodge No: 1197, but there is a Masonic Lodge, Nyanza Lodge No 1197, based in Somerset. Could this be relevant?Alternatively, the mirrored drum-skin bears the legend 1 ONE IX HE DIE (1 1 9 He Die) clue. Could this be connected?

Ultimately, I know not what this all means. But, I saw it, grabbed a screenshot of it, and now I hope someone may be able to provide a coherent answer.

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Is it a coincidence or simple synchronicity that Paul
McCartney’s appearance as a pirate in the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean movie
should be slated for release in the UK on the self-same day that Apple Corps
release the 50th anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band?

Possibly not, methinks, as I believe that there has always
been a hidden buccaneer element to all things Pepper.

McCartney, according to IMDB, appears as Jail Guard 2
and adorns a promotional poster in full privateer pomp with a hand of cards
held conspiratorially close to his chest. The Dead Man’s Hand one assumes as,
as the poster says, Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Billy Bones?

Could this be confirmation that on this propitious date the
truth about Sgt. Pepper and its attendant ‘Treasure Island’ coded clues will be
revealed?

Possibly, is the best and only truthful answer I can supply,
however, it does provide a very neat excuse for me to promote me old tome, The
Sgt. Pepper Code, once again, especially as it has been revised in anticipation
of the album’s fiftieth anniversary.

About Me

I have for a long time been intrigued by the Beatles conspiracies that seem to surround them. I have just published my first ebook; The Sgt Pepper Code that is available on Amazon. I also have a YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Beacon1966.